Tag: onboarding
Make the Patriot Way Your Way of Onboarding
In the past decade or so, if one team emerges from the pack in the NFL at this time of year, it tends to be the New England Patriots. There's…
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Onboarding Context and Culture
One of the most critical inputs into an onboarding plan is an assessment of context and culture. The context has three parts: the business environment, the organization's history, its recent…
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BRAVE Framework for Thinking About Culture
Organizational Culture: So Important - So Misunderstood We created some new frameworks for the 3rd edition of our book The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, and then made them a…
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Subordinates should not interview potential bosses
First impressions are indelible. If a new leader's first encounter with a future direct report is when he or she is being interviewed for a job, the balance of power…
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Leverage Public Hangings
Some actions, like public hangings, communicate more forcefully than any words or pictures ever could. There's no question that it is generally important for a new leader to be assimilated…
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Who cares?
William Ury's TED talk on "The Walk from "no" to "yes"" is compelling. In it, he makes the assertion that most, if not all, conflict between two people or two…
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Critical onboarding question: Wok or a Teapot?
People process information differently. So, as you're onboarding into an organization and meeting new people, it's helpful to figure out if they are woks, teapots, or percolators. Woks quick cook…
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Watch out for Minnesota Nice
Wikipedia, that font of all current knowledge, describes "Minnesota Nice" as "courteous, reserved, and mild mannered". If everyone in the world disciplined themselves to be like that, the world would…
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The New Leader's Two-Hour Action Plan
Have you noticed that most feature films are about two hours long? If the world's best directors with the world's best scripts, best actors, and best special effects have decided…
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